Correspondence from Kellogg to Guinier; Assorted News Clippings on Major v. Treen

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Attorney William Quigley looks over contrasting charts he will present in court Monday 

I'reen may be key witness 
1 congressional remap trial 

y JOHN LaPLANTE 
4jitol news bureau 

NEW ORLEANS — Gov. Treen may 
© the key witness in a historic trial 
¢gning Monday that challenges the 
tate’s congressional maps on the 
rounds they are unfair to minorities. 

1f successful, the class-action lawsuit 
ould force the drafting of new 
oundary lines for all eight Louisiana 
istricts and give minorities a shot at 
lecting Louisiana's first black 
cugressmen since Reconstruction. 

Treripple effect of such a plan would 
ely split the population — and the 
olitical power — of Baton Rouge 
imost in half between two districts. 
Five black citizens, representing the 

.ute’s half-million minority voters, 
re asking a three-judge panel to 
eclare unconstituticnal the district 
nes approved by the Legislature in 
vol. 

They say neighborhoods in New 
Orleans — and its mostly-black 
population — were split between two 
oddly configured districts rather than 
combined to form the state's first 
majority-black district. 

“The legislation had the intent and 
the effect of diluting minority voting 
strength,”said William Quigley, one of 
the attorneys for the plaintiffs, . . 

State attorneys will ‘argué that,” 
rather than diluting minority voting 
stren,.th, the new boundary lines 
actualiy increased the number of 
blacks in the disputed 3%nd 
Congressional ~~ District while 
maintaining a ‘strong base of black 
voters in the neighboring 1st District. 

Quigley said Gov. Treen has been 
called as a witness in the trial, which is 
expected to last all week. Assistant 
Attorney General Ken DeJean said 
Treen will have to testify in person if he 
is called to the stand. : 

  

Treen is important to the case 
because he threatened to veto maps 
approved by both house of the 
Legislature that would have created a 
majority-black district. 

Quigley said Treen’s motives will be 
a factor in the case. He said Treen will 
be questioned about his activities in the 
long-defunct States’ Rights Pa 

Treen has said he joined the party, 
not for racial reasons, but to work for 
reduced federal intervention in 
activities rightfully the duty of states. 
He said he left the party because it 
failed to produce resuits and was 
besmirched by suggestions of racism. 

DeJean said state attorneys probably 
will oppose questions about Treen’s 
past because they would not be relevant 

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fo the case. 

Treen said he objected to the black- district plan because he wanted to maintain traditional configurations — itrcluding the split of New Orleans — and preserve the political base of a fellow Republican, U.S. Rep. Bob Livingston of New Orleans. 
2d@he black-district plan was opposed by Some Baton Rouge area legislators 

ause its ripple effects would have split Be parish, carving the northern half into ‘2he 8th District of U.S. Rep. Gillis Long, D- exandria and leaving the rest in the 6th istrict of U.S. Rep. Henson Moore, R- * Baton Rouge. 
The final plan, after hectic negotiations 
legislators, congressman and local politicians, included a 2nd District, epresented by Democrat Lind Boggs, hat contains most of suburban Jefferson arish, bypasses affluent white areas of ew Orleans near the Jefferson Parish ine and instead carves out a head-and- 

Shoulders shaped section of the inner city. “We call it the Donald Duck district pecause that’s what it looks like,” Quigley id 
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prohibits discrimination on the basis of race. 
The plan was approved by the U.S. Justice Department last year, but Quigley said Republican Treen'’s relationship with the Reagan administration may have influenced the federal attorneys’ decision. The U.S. Voting Rights Act requires Louisiana to get federal approval for any 

changes in election laws. 
DeJean, one of three attorneys defending the districts for the state, said the new boundary lines, first used in the 1982 elections, only continue the traditional! makeup of Louisiana's 

districts. 

“New Orleans has been split since 1843, when Louisiana first started using districts to elect congressmen,” DeJean said. 
He notes that federal courts have ruled 

that concentrating, or “packing,” black voters can also be construed as diluting the black vote because it can be used to confine black voting power to a single area. 
DeJean said minorities have gained from. the new maps because blacks constitute 45 percent of the population of the 2nd District, compared to 41 percent before the maps were drawn, 
He noted that black voters still constitute 30 percent of the 1st District. 

Rep. Livingston, a conservative, has said that his votes have been tempered on many issues in Congress because he knew he had to please his black constituents to at least some degree to. maintain his popularity in the district. 
: Gov. Treen, a former congressman, has made the same arguments. 

“Treen has been unable to show that anybody black believes that,” Quigley said. He said black groups, including the NAACP, are supporting the challenge. 
Quigley said lead attorney for the plaintiffs is Jim Kellogg of New Orleans. He will be aided by Stanley Halpin, who participated in a successful challenge of Louisiana legislative district lines in 1971, and Lani Guinier, an attorney for the legal defense fund of the NAACP. 
Heading the defense for the state — Treen and Secretary of State Jim Brown are named as defendants — is Martin Feldman of New Orleans. He wi] be aided by DeJean and Bob Kutcher, also of New Orleans. 

_A special three judge panel — federal] district judges Robert Collins and Fred ibry, and U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Henry Politz — wij) try the case. The losing side can appeal directly to the U.S. Supreme Court. 

  

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astro says U.S. 
By MICHAEL GOLDSMITH 

~. -NEW DELHI, India (AP) — Cuban 
‘President Fidel Castro, calling the United 
:States- the “modern barbarian,” on 

i Monday accused President Reagan of 
‘resuming attempts to kill him and other 
members of his communist government. 

*. “In Washington, deputy White House 
press secretary Larry Speakes said 
Castro's asgertion of CIO assassination 
plots was false. “The law of the land and 

| executive orders don’t permit that sort of 
| thing, so it’s obviously untrue,” he said. 

, Delegates to the 7th conference of 100 
i non-aligned countries warmly applauded 
i Castro's 2%2-hour speech, which included a 

{ wide-ranging attack on U.S. foreign policy. 

Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, 
who took over the chairmanship. of the 
group from Castro, told the opening 
session that mankind is “balancing on the 
brink of the collapse of the world economic 
system and annihilation through nuclear 
war.” ” 

The non-aligned nations do not belong to . 
either the U.S.-led NATO military alliance 
or the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact alliance. 
Many of them are Third World countries in 
Africa, Asia and Latin America. 

Leaders of the non-aligned.countries 
opened their conference Monday in the 
Indian capital. 

Dressed in his general’s uniform, Castro 
declared: “Through trustworthy sources, 
we have learned that the U.S. 
administration has instructed the Central 

  

Intelligence Agency to resume the plan to 
ge wo leaders, by its er 

. void 

“We have not and will never yield tothe 
modernbarbarian of our times,” the 
leader added in his attack on the Uni 
States and the Reagan administration. : 

He said President Reagan had revived 
the conspiracy against his life by previeus 
American administrations which we 
“confirmed before the US. Senate.” 7 . 

In November 1975, the Se 
Intelligence Committee reported theyre: 
was “concrete evidence” that U.S. officidls - 
had instigated at least eight plots involving 
the CIA to kill Castro between 1960 and 
1965. 

The plots “ran the gamut from high- 
powered rifles to poison pills, poison pens, 

  

plotting to kill him 
deadly bacterial powders and other * § 
devices which strain the imagination,” the 
comniittee said in 1975. The panel added 
that some of the plots never got past the 
preparation ra: 

Reagan wanted him killed, Castro said 
Monday, because of his support. for 
revolutionary movements in Latin 

"America and throughout the world, and for 
his refusal to “sell out . . .t6 American 
imperialism.” 

He asked: “What else can be expected 
from such an unscrupulous character?” 

Castro particularly attacked U.S. policy 
in southern Africa, Central America and 
the Middle East. 

His speech was technically a report on 

(See CASTRO, Page 6-A) 

  

Fidel Castro 

Jobs bill 
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SNAKE ROUNDUP — Jerry Conrad of Taylor, 
Texas, competes in the 11th annual Taylor 

+ Rattlesnake Sacking Contest. Conrad was bitten as 

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he was sacking his 10 snakes and was treated at an 
area hospital. Winning the contest requires sacking 
10 snakes in the shortest elapsed time. 

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By DAVID ESPO : 
Associated Press writer 

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate 
Appropriations Committee gave 
unanimous approval Monday to a $3.9 
billion package of recession relief, a full $1 
billion less than the Democratic-controlled 
House approved last week for jobs and. 
humanitarian assistance. . 

The measure, which also provides $5 
: billion fo assure continued payment of 
unemployment benefits; is expected to 
come up for debate in the full Senate later 
7 4he Yosh Easy passage is expected, 
although k Hatfield, the Oregon 
Republican who a rs the committee, 
said he would attempt to reduce spending 
on the jobs portion of the bill by about $373 
million to accommodate the wishes of 
President Reagan. 

The bill was adopted by voice vote in the : 
Republican-controlled committee as the 
panel took steps to make sure the funds are 

“Virginia and Wisconsin. 

targeted to areas of high unemployment. 

In all, about $2.1 billion will be 
distributed on the basis of unemployment, 
and under the complicated formuia 
adopted, 15 states will benefit 
particularly. The 15, all of which had 
unemployment higher than the national 
average for all of 1982, inclugle Alabama, 
Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky Louisiana, 
Michigan and Mississippi. A{s} on the list 
are Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South 
Carolina, Tennessee, Washisgton, West _ 

Despite the amendment, drafted by 
Hatfield and Democrats John Stennis-of 
Mississippi and Robert C. Byrd of West 
Virginia, some. members complained- 
about “pork” being a part of the bill. Sen. 
Tom Eagleton, D-Mo., noted that some of 
the funds were earmarked for states 
represented by influential committee 

(See JOBS, Page 6-A) 

  

  

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By JOHN LaPLANTE : 
Capitol news bureau > 

NEW ORLEANS — A computer 
analysis of past election resuits proves 
that Louisiana's congressional districts 
were drawn to prevent election of a 
black, an Indiana political science 
professor testified Monday. 

“The evidence of a variety of sources 
and a variety of kinds . . . indicates 
that there has been created a racial 
gerrymander,” Gordon Henderson of 
Earlham College told a three-judge 
federal panel. 

Henderson was the first witness for 
attorneys representing black voters 
who seek to have the 1981 
congressional maps declared illegal. 

The plaintiffs say the districts were 
drawn with the intent and the result of 
weakening black voting strength — a 
violation of the U.S. Voting Rights Act. 
They want the boundary lines redrawn 
to create a majority-black district in 

remap plan anti-black | 
A likely side effect of such a plan 

would be the split of east Baton Rouge 
Parish between two congressional 
districts, reducing Baton Rouge’s 
traditional status as the center of 
power in the sixth District of U.S. Rep. 
Henson Moore. 

State attorneys defending the 
congressional maps questioned the 
validity of Henderson's statistics, 
suggested he knows little of Louisiana’s 

* politics and noted that blacks have been. 
elected to high office in New Orleans, a 
city with a majority of white voters. 

Henderson, who was hired by the 
plaintiffs to testify, based his opinions 
on a complex computer analysis of the 
results of 39 elections in New Orleans 
since 1976. 

He said he found that black voters 
almost always vote for black 
candidates, and white voters vote for 
white candidates. 

He said such polarization is an afior- 
effect of Louisiana's traditional bad 

Henderson said a black candidate 
would have a chance at winning 
election to Congress only if he ranin a 
majority-black district. The legislature 
considered creating a majority-black 
district in New Orleans in 1981 but 
abandoned the idea after Gov. Treen 
threatened to veto such a plan. 

State attorneys said black voting 
strength has actually been enhanced by 
the 1981 plan. Lead attorney Martin 
Feldman said black population in the: 
2nd District has been increased from 40 
to 45 percent. 

Henderson said the increased black 
population means little unless blacks 
are given a majority in the district. 
Feldman questioned most of 

Henderson's conclusions. 
If the races are so polarized, he 

asked, how did black New Orleans 
mayor Dutch Morial win electio 
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CHRISTOPHER CONNELL 
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The House 

1es Committee set the stage Tuesday for 

lor battle over whether to raise the 

-ia] Security retirement age to 67 for 

ple who are 23 or younger today. 

With Republicans solid and Democrats 

.1ded, that amendment appeared to have 

-aal chance when the full House votes 

ednesday on the $165.3 billion bailout 

in for Social Security. : 

‘ne rules committee agreed by voice 

ie to send the amendment to the floor 
ong with a rival proposal calling for a 
yroll hike. 
The amendments are the only two 

anges the committee recommended the 

11 House consider in approving the 

scue plan originally fashioned by the 

National Commision on Social Security 
Reform. % eh ; 

At issueis the Cgmission’s fatjure 8” 
prescribe haw t0 \agolve one-third of EEE 
Social Security's 100vgerm $1.9 trillion 
deficit. ") 

Rep. Claude Peppet fi]a,, the rules 
chairman, said he will of {3p amendment 
to wipe out the remaininiygficit with a 
0.53 percent payroll tax itfngaca in the 
year 2015, which would boost Nievy from 
7.65 percent to 8.18 percent. 7 

But congressional leaders inditgag that 
support was building for (h\yjval 
amendment to raise the retiremewgge 
sponsored by Rep. J.J. Pickle, D-Teigg, 
chairman of the Ways and Me 
subcommittee on Social Security. 

Pickle’s plan would boost the retirement 
age in two stages from 65 to 67 over 44 
years. 

Joth sides say remap 
avored incumbents 
y JOHN LaPLANTE 
apitol news bureau 

NEW ORLEANS — Incumbent 
ongressmen played a major role in. 
poiling chances for a black-controlled 
ongressional district in Louisiana, 
‘itnesses on both sides of a historic 
cdistricting battle agreed Tuesday. 
Attorneys trying to prove the state’s 
ongressional maps are unfair to blacks 
ested their case in federal court after 
estimony that white incumbents gained 
he most from a plan that divides black 
wpulation — and black voting power — 
“tween two districts. 
State attorneys defending the plan 

egan building their case with testimony 
iat congressmen were trying to preserve 
weir political base — not discriminate 

against blacks — when they succeeded in 
killing plans for a majority-black district 
in New Orleans. 

A lawsuit filed in the name of the state’s - 
half-million black voters claims the 
district lines are illegal because they dilute 
black voting strength. 

At the center of the case is the boundary 
line between the 2nd District represented 
by liberal Rep. Lindy Boggs and the 1st 
District represented by conservative 
Republican Rep. Bob Livingston. The line 
raeanders through inner-city New Orleans, 
splitting heavily black neighborhoods 
between the two districts. : 

Richard Engstrom, a University 0’ 
Orleans political science pr- 

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"3 analyzed the districts for the plaintiffs. 
“lf you're trying to save the seat of a 

white incumbent, then the black 
population would be dispersed,” Engstrom 
said. “If I were a white in a racially 
polarized area, I don't think I'd want it (the 
black population) to get too close to 50 
percent,” he said. 
Engstrom said it is highly unlikely a 

black candidate could be elected to id Congress in Louisiana.because none of the tid eight districts has more than 44.7 percent 
black population. 

He said in Louisiana, where black and 
white voters almost always vote for 
candidates of their own race, 45 percent 
minority voting power is necessary to elect 
a black to office. 

During a 1981 special session, the 
Legislature nearly approved a map that 
carved a 54 percent black district out of 
mostly-black New Orleans, but the plan 
was dropped after Gov. Treen threatened 
to veto it. 

Treen will take the stand Thursday to 
defend his actions. 

However, state Rep. Emile “Peppi” 
Bruneau, I-New Orleans. said the state's 
congressmen had more influence than 
Treen in defeating the majority-black 
plan, which would have altered their 
districts greatly. 

Bruneau and House Speaker John 
Hainkel were called by state attorneys to 
show that self-interest politics — not 
racial discrimination — was the major 
factor in drawing congressional maps. 

The lawmakers said the majority-black 
plan was concocted by ambitious white politicians looking for a congressional seat they could control — not by blacks or 
others seeking to help minorities win more 
political influence. 

He said Rep. Jock Scott, D-Alexandria, 
and Sen. Samuel Nunez, D-Chalmette, both 
potential candidates for Congress, 
proposed a majority-black district for 
New Orleans because side effects of such a 
plan would alter the political composition 

swe of the districts in their areas. Hi 

The lawmakers said he was hesitant to 
“tell tales out of school” since redistricting 
negotiations were conducted in secret. 

But under further questioning he said 
that it was the incumbent congressmen — 
not Treen — whose lobbying convinced the 

Legislature to drop the majority-black 
plan. . 

“All the congressmen were involved at 
that point, both the Republicans, the 
Democrats, the liberals, the moderates 
and the conservatives,” Bruneau said. He . 
said they made telephone calls to 
lawmakers in their districts to push an 
alternative plan, 

Hainkel testified that the majority. 
black plan nearly approved .by the 
Legislature was drafted by Jefferson 
Parish Assessor Lawrence Chehardy, who 
wanted a black-controlled district because 
it would produce a neighboring Jefferson- 
controlled district. : 

“Gov. Treen was not particularly 
enamored with Chehardy trying to contro] 
. . . the election of a congressman,” 
Hainkel said. : 

Earlier, state Rep. Richard Turnley, D- 
Baton Rouge, had testified that black 
voters would be better served by 
congressional maps that would allow the . 
election of a black congressman from New ; 
Orleans — even if such a plan would 
weaken black political influence in the rest | 
of the state. : i 

Turnley, chairman of the Legislative 
Black Caucus, told the three-judge panel 
that the current congressional district 
lines are unfair to all Louisiana blacks 
because black neighborhoods — and black voting power — in New Orleans were split 
between two districts. hi 

Treen and other backers of the maps adopted by the Legislature in 198] say the | lines allow blacks substantial influence in ; two New Orleans districts, rather thana majority in oné district and little influence * 
in the other. w i . PRR PTE $ Appeals Court Judge Henry Politz, the ; chief judge bearing the-case, made a point of asking Turnley ~ which type of representation would be in the best interest of Louisiana's black citizens. 

“I would prefer ‘the majority-black 
- district in New Orleans” even if its ripple 
effects reduced black population in other 
districts, Turnley-said, : ; 

“I'drather have a hoese in the race than 
half a horse,” he said. ¥ 

Turnley spent most of his 90 minutes on 
the stand explaining how he believes black 
people can best be represented by other 
blacks in Congress, although he said white 
U.S. Rep. Henson Moore, R-Baton Rouge, ; 
has been sympathetic to blacks in his 6th id 
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The Associated Press 

Burford says controversy 
nade resignation necessary 
Jy PAULA SCHWED 
inited Press Intemational 

WASHINGTON (UPI) — Anne 
Jurford, without bitterness but fighting 
zk tears, said Thursday she resigned 
:s head of the Environmental 
‘totection Agency because “it was 
setting to the point where I couldn't do 
my job anymore.” 

“] resigned because I felt I had 
pecome the issue,” Mrs. Burford said in 
her first public comments since her 
resignation. “It's hard to lead a normal 
ife when there are people camped in 
‘our front yard.” 

Mrs. Burford told reporters jammed 
rito the ballroom of a downtown hotel, 
‘I'm not a bitter person.” 

But because of the controversy over 
ke EPA's toxic waste cleanup 
rogram, “It was getting to the point 

where I couldnt do my job anymore,” 
she said. 

Mrs. Burford, 40, dubbed the “Ice 
Queen” for her coolness under 
pressure, never cried during her 15- 
minute news conference but verged on 
tears, especially when she talked about 
President Reagan. 

“That man is a fine man. He is right 
for this country. I'm proud to have 
worked for him and I'll be proud to 
work for him again,” said Mrs. Burford, 
wearing a lavender suit and print 
blouse. : 

Reagan accepted Mrs. Burford’s 
resignation Wednesday, praising her 
“unselfishness and personal courage.” 

Asked in an interview with ABC 
News whether she was too loyal to the 
president, Mrs. Burford said, “If I had a 
fault -- if I had a fault, I would like to 
have it be known that that fault is 

loyalty.” 
The White House moved Thursday to 

put the controversy over management 
of the agency to rest, giving a House 
subcommittee boxes of confidential 
EPA documents Reagan previously 
had ordered withheld. A spokesman 
said the White House will be “maving as 
fast as we can” to name a permanent 
successor. 

In announcing Mrs. Burford's 
resignation, the White House said 
Reagan would turn over to a House 
subcommittee the documents that may 
support allegations of 
mismanagement, political favoritism 
and conflicts of interest in the EPA's 
$1.6 billion superfund toxic waste 
cleanup program. 

Mrs. Burford defended her two-year 

(See EPA, Page 6-A) 

  

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Coalition to fund LS 
study of boundary reefs 
By BOB ANDERSON 
Advocate staff writer 

A coalition of environmental and fishing 
organizations says it will fund an 
investigation of the loss of state boundary 
reefs, because the attorney general's 
office has not been able to come up with the 
money. 

The LSU Center for Wetland Resources 
will begin the investigation Wednesday, 
said Richard Hayes of Save Our Coast Inc. 

Earlier the attorney general's office had 
announced that it would contract with LSU 
to conduct the investigation, but that it 
would have to find funding. 

Hayes said the coalition felt it could not 
wait any longer. : 

The groups contacted the attorney 
general's office several months ago, and 

there is still no guarantee of money, Hayes 
said. 

Gary Keyser, who has been handling the 
matter for the attorney general, expressed 
surprise Thursday night at the coalition’s 
decision. 

“I'd hoped they wouldn't take any action 
until the state had a reasonable chance to 
come up with some money,” Keyser said. 

Keyser said the Treen administration, 
has expressed interest in the project. 

Hopefully the attorney general will be 
able to find funds to conduct a broader 
investigation later, Hayes said. 

But Keyser said he still hopes the 
attorney general's office can take part in 
the entire investigation. 

Because of the controversy surrounding 
the issue, the coalition is hiring: an 
independent consultant — LSU — to 

Treen says race issue 

played no part in remap 
By JOHN LaPLANTE 

Capitol news bureau 4 

NEW ORLEANS — A two-year battle 
over the shape of Louisiana's 
congressional districts is now in the hands 
of three federal judges who will decide 
whether a 1981 redistricting plan is unfair 
to Louisiana's half-million black voters. 

Attorneys completed testimony late 
Thursday after four days of presenting 
complex evidence on Louisiana’s past 
racial problems, its political structure and 
their relationship to a congressional 
apportionment approved by the 
Legislature in 1981. 

Louisiana has oddly-shaped 
congressional districts because the district 
lines favor incumbent congressmen, not 
because anyone wanted to dilute black 

voting strength, Gov. Treen told the court 
Thursday. 

Treen also denied that he used his 
political influence to win approval of the 
new districts from the Republican- 
controlled U.S. Justice Department. 

Treen said racial issues “did not enter 
my mind” during the redistricting 
controversy in 1981. Nor did anyone ever 
suggest to him that black voters be 
dispersed, the governor said. 

Treen was the star witness in a trial to 
decide whether the congressional lines are 
unfair to minorities. 

The three-judge panel gave attorneys a 
total of 70 days to file final briefs in the 
case. The judges did not say how long it 
would take them to rule on the case, 

(See REMAP, Page 8-A) 

  

polduct the investigation, the spokesman 
said. 

Hayes said the coalition will supply 
boats, provisions and lodging for the t50 
researchers as well as paying the bill for 
the study. 

The coalition wants to.establish proof of 
whether the reefs still exist or are gone. If 
they no longer exist, the coalition wants 
LSU to determine whether they were 
“illegally destroyed,” Hayes said. 
Two shrimpers testified before the 

Coastal Commission last month that they 
have witnessed dredging of the reefs. 

Few of the reefs remain that were used 
to form the state's boundary south of 
Atchafalaya and East Cote Blanche bays, 
according to some shrimpers who frequent 

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although U.S. Appeals Court Judge Henry 
Politz, chief of the panel, said an 
unfavorable ruling would have to be 
handed down in time to redraw districts 
for the 1984 congressional elections. 

“I had no problem with a district that 
was heavy black,” Treen said during his 
three hours on the witness stand. 

“What is ominous,” he said, “is the 
mentality that suggests that you should 
draw districts on racial lines.” 

Treen said he favored boundary changes 
“that were normal and natural.” 

A group of black citizens, backed by the 
NAACP, are asking a three-judge panel to 
‘declare the congressional maps 
unconstitutional on grounds they dilute 
minority voting strength — a violation of 

the U.S. Voting Rights Act. 
They claim Treen'’s threat to veto a plan 

creating a majority-black district in New 
Orleans — a plan endorsed by both houses 
of the Legislature at one point — resulted 
in a compromise map that sliced New 
Orleans’ mostly black population between 
two districts. 

Treen said he disliked the majority- 
black plan because it would have almost 
totally relocated the adjoining 1st District 
of U.S. Rep. Bob Livingston, R-New 
Orleans, a political ally of Treen’s. 

Treen said the compromise plan 
retained the integrity of Livingston's 
district and the other seven districts used 
to elect Louisiana congressmen. 

“The reconciliation plan, for all the 
incumbents, was close to what they 
wanted,” Treen said. “I think that was the 
dominant factor, not my threat of a veto, in 
passing the reconciliation plan.” 

The court also heard from Livingston, 
who said he opposed the majority-black 
plan for the 2nd District because it would 
have drained black constituents from his 
1st District. 

He said he has gone out of his way to 
serve blacks, campaign for black 
candidates and even get jobs for black 
constituents. 

Livingston said he wanted to avoid 
reducing his black constituency because 
that would have created “the stereotype of 
a conservative Republican district.” 

Plaintiff attorney Lani Guinier 
maintained that Treen heavily lobbied 
political appointees of the Justice |} 
Department to overturn staff attorneys . 
who wanted the plan rejected as unfair to | 
blacks. She introduced a report by staff | 
attorney Robert Kwan which reportedly 
recommended rejection of Louisiana's : 

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congressional maps. 
Under the Voting Rights Act, all 

Louisiana election laws must be reviewed 
by the Justice Department for fairness to 
minorities. 

Treen said he met only once with 
Assistant Attorney General William 
Bradford Reynolds in Washington on the 
subject of redistricting, and that he only 
provided information and asked for a 
quick decision. 

He said he did not lobby Reynolds to 
change any Fecommendations of the 
Justice Department staff. * 

Ms. Guinier asked Treen about a second 
meeting with Reynolds on Jan. 11, 1982. 
Treen said he did not recall a second 
meeting, but that he had been meeting with 
Reynolds on occasions to discuss a federal 
case involving desegregation of 
Louisiana's public universities. 

Newspaper files indicate Treen did meet 
with Reynolds on that date, reportedly to 
discuss the desegregation case. 

Treen acknowledged that during the 
1981 Special Legislative Session he vowed 
to vetoa congressional plan creating a 
majority-black- 2nd District in New 
Orleans. ar 

The Legislature eventually adopted, and 
Treen signed into law, a plan with 44.5 

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District represented by U.S. Rep. Lindy 
Boggs, D-New Orleans. ; ‘ 

The plaintiffs say the approved plan cuts 
a duck-shaped boundary line through 
inner-city New Orleans to intentionally ° 

_ split black neighborhoods between the 1st 
and 2nd Districts and submerge black 
political influence. 

“I'd have to say to be honest with you, I | 
didn't like the configuration. I didn't like Ei: 
the shape of it,” Treen said. He said he 
knew that black leaders supported the plan 
earlier approved by both houses of the 
Legislature that would have resulted in a 
black-controlled 2nd District. 

Treen said black leaders never told him | 
their views on the compromise approved | 
by the Legislature. : 

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trial before U.S. Appeals Court Judge 
Henry Polit and 
Frank Cassibry sind Robert Collins. 

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By JOHN LaPLANTE 
Capitol news bureau 

+ Concern for minority rights and fair 
election districts fell prey to “the raw 
realities of politics” when Louisiana's 
congressional maps were redrawn in 1981, 
2 federal court was told Wednesday. 
: “Atthis point the textbooks were out the 
window. It was pure politics,” Senate 
Secretary Mike Baer told three federal 
judges who are deciding whether the 
State’s congressional boundary lines are 
unfair to blacks. : 

Baer said Gov. Treen’s threat to veto a 
district lines creating a majority black 
district in New Orleans — and his ability to 
uphold his threat by controlling state funds 
for local legislators’ districts — left 
lawmakers little choice but to drop the 
planand adopt one without a black district. 

“The governor’s veto power is absolute. 
The Legislature could never hope to 
override a veto,” said Baer, a witness in 
the third day of a historic reapportionment 
trial. 

A lawsuit filed on behalf of Louisiana's 
black voters claims a compromise plan 
that resulted from Treen's veto threat is 
illegal because it splits black 
neighborhoods in New Orleans between 
two districts that include a majority of 
white voters. 

The plaintiffs want the maps declared 
illegal under the U.S. Voting Rights Act, 
which prohibits election laws that dilute 
minority voting strength. 

State attorneys defending the plan say 
the emphasis on political factors proves 
that race was not a factor in the 
redistricting process. 

Gov. Treen is scheduled to take the stand 
Thursday to defend his actions. 

Baer was a witness for the state, but 
plaintiff attorneys said Baer helped prove 
their argument that blacks were excluded 
from the redistricting process and should 
have been given a district that may have 
elected the first black Louisiana 
congressman since Reconstruction. 

His testimony contradicted the 
statements of several Louisiana House 
members who said Treen’s veto threat was 
not the major factor that killed hopes for 
the state’s first black-controlled district. 

“I would vote regardless of what the 
governor wanted or not,” Rep. Mary 
Landrieu, D-New Orleans, said on the 
stand earlier in the day. 

Baer said the majority black district 
was born after he attended a 
reapportionment seminar that suggested 
highly populous inner-city areas with 
common interests be combined to form a 
logical congressional district. Surrounding 
suburban areas could be combined to form 
another logical district, he said. 

“We had a chance to do a textbook 
remapping case,” Baer said, by making 
one district out of majority black New 
Orleans and another out of its mostly white 
suburbs, particularly Jefferson Parish. 

After Gov. Treen threatened to veto the 
plan, the “textbook” plan was scrapped 
and each faction fended for itself, Baer 
said. 

Senate leaders, congressmen, and others 
interested in the case met in the Senate 
basement to concoct a plan, he said. 

“When we got to the compromise, we 
were trying to protect the Democrats (in 
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The major priorities, he said, were to 

protect favored incumbents, give mostly- 
white Jefferson Parish control of the 2nd 
District and draw as many inner-city 
blacks into that district as possible and stiil 
maintain a district with about 525,000 
people, the required population allowed . 
for each of the state’s eight congressional 
districts. 

The result, he said, was a district with 45 
percent black population and a boundary 
line that includes most of Jefferson and 
meanders through inner-city New Orleans 
in the shape of a donkey's head. The 
plaintiffs have nicknamed the boundary 
“Donald Duck.” 

The judges were keenly interested in 
Baer's testimony and asked him almost as 
many questions as the attorneys arguing 
the case. U.S. Appeals Court Judge Henry 
Politz, chief of the panel hearing the case, 
asked Baer: 

“You mean we ended up putting all the 
rules aside . . . about how districts ought 
to be drawn . . . and we go to the raw 
realities of politics?” 

“Yes, sir,” Baer answered. 
Earlier in the day, Jefferson Parish 

Assessor Lawrence Chehardy told the 
court that blacks were not invited to the 
closed-door meeting that produced the 
compromise remapping plan during a 1981 
special session of the Legislature. 

“The one constituency group that was 
not going to come out of the session 
satisfied was the blacks,” Chehardy said 

“Because of competing interests 
involved, there was going to be virtually no 
way to satisfy the black members of the 
Legislature,” he said. 

Chehardy. was a witness for state 
attorney Martin ‘Feldman, who is 
defending the maps on grounds they were 
drawn based on political — not racial — 
concerns, and thus do not violate the 
Voting Right Act, which protects the 
political power of minorities. 

Chehardy testified that he drafted a plan 
— the same plan discussed by Baer — that 
was designed to give Jefferson Parish the 
major portion of the 2nd District 
represented by U.S. Rep. Lindy Boggs, D- 
New Orleans. 

“The creation of a black majority 
district (in New Orleans) was a natural 
byproduct of what we were trying to do,” } 
he said. 
Chehardy said the majority black 

district was an accidental result of his goal 
of increasing Jefferson Parish control of a 
congressional district. 

He said he never discussed the plan with 
black leaders, who later embraced it 
because it also met their own goals of a 
black-controlled district. 

The Legislature almost approved the 
Chehardy plan, but Treen threatened to 
veto it. It was then that Chehardy, state 
Senate leaders, and congressmen retired 
to the Senate briefing room in the State 
Capitol to draft a compromise that was 
eventually approved by the Legislature 
and signed by Gov. Treen. 

That plan does not include a majority 
black district anywhere in Louisiana. 

Chehardy said no one meant to exclude 
blacks from that final unannounced 
meeting, but that neither were any black 
leaders invited 

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Federal officials approved 
Louisiana's congressional maps last 
year despite a staff report that 
concluded the district lines were drawn 
to discriminate against blacks, the 
Morning Advocate has learned. 

Civil rights attorneys who are 
challenging the maps in the courts say 
the report helps prove that the districts, 
which are used to elect Louisiana 
congressmen, should have been rejected 
as unfair to minorities. 

They maintain that Gov. Treen used 
his political connections with the 
Republican-controlled U.S. Justice 
Department to get the plan approved. 

Treen ‘“‘had the central role in the 
reapportionment process,” Justice 
Department staff attorney Robert 
Kwan wrote in a confidential, 30-page 
analysis of the district boundaries 
approved by the 1981 Legislature. 

“. .. The Governor was acutely 
aware of the racial consequences of his 
actions, and those racial considerations 
formed the basis of his actions,” Kwan 
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chance to elect one of their own to 
Congress, as Treen says, the plan 
creates “districts in which they (blacks) 
are outnumbered by persons with 
antagonistic interests,” 
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The U.S. Voting Rights Act prohibits 
election laws that have the intent or the 
effect of diluting the voting strength of 
minorities, : 

Treen has repeatedly denied that his 
involvement in the redistricting process 
was racially motivated or that he used 
his influence with the Reagan 
administration to get the plan approved. 

The governor said the plan he signed 
into law enhances black voting strength 
by increasing black population from 41 
to 45 percent in the 2nd District, the 
most heavily black district in the state. 

Treen said he traveled to Washington 
once to talk to Assistant Attorney 
General William Bradford Reynolds 
about the plan. Treen said he did not 
lobby for the flan but only asked 
Reynolds to make a quick decision to 
prevent a delay in last fall's 

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ongressional elections. lawsuit, backed by the NAACP, alleging reasons, had the central role in the maintain segregation of the races in the this party,” Kwan wrote, Ea 

c npn nolds approved the maps last the district lines are unfair because they reapportionment process. : early 1960s, Kwan said. : : Kwan said persons objecting to the 

June yae ite Kwan's recommendations. do not give black voters control of one of “He proposed his own Kwan noted that Treen, in his congressional plan submitted old flyers 

The Voting Rights Act requires that the state's eight congressional districts. reapportionment bills, used his veto authorized biography, said he was listing Treen as a speaker at a “Rally to 

federal attorneys reject election laws A ruling on the case is not expected power toachieve a desired objective and disturbed by the racist tagon the States’ Save Segregation. 

that are deemed unfair to minorities. until sometime this summer. did not allow the enactment of a final Rights Party because he has always During the trial on the lawsuit, Treen 

a Reynolds could not be reached for The plaintiffs say Treen single- plan unless it met his requirements. . . believed thatallmanare createdequal. said his involvement in the 

ect comment. Justice Department handedly dashed hopes of a majority .” ; nr It is difficult to reconcile these reapportionment process was 

spokesman John Wilson said Reynolds black district when he threatened to Kwan said Treen's motivation is 
‘does not want to discuss it.” veto a plan, endorsed by both houses of crucial to the case. Wilson said Kwan's report is only the the Legislature, that would have carved The report includes a summary of 
ppinion of one employee who reviewed out a district in New Orleans with 54 Treen's involvement with the long- 
he case. However, Wilson offered no percent black population. They want defunct States’ Rights Party, ostensibly Acts or opinions to contradict Kwan's such a plan enacted. organized to fight federal intervention 

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A federal attorney's report declaring 
Louisiana congressional maps unfair to 
blacks was rejected by his superiors 
because it was “absolutely ludicrous,” 
Gov. Treen said Monday. 

The Morning Advocate - reported 
Monday that Assistant U.S. Attorney 
General William Bradford Reynolds 
approved the district lines last year 
despite a staff report that concluded the 
maps wéré drawn to discriminate against 
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"."." Robert Kwan, head of a group of Justice 
Department attorneys who reviewed the 

# maps, said Gov. Treen was motivated by 
' “racial concerns when he threatened to veto 

‘an alternative plan favored by black 
political leaders. Kwan recommended the 
congressional maps be disapproved. 

“It is totally and absolutely ludicrous, 
with no basis in fact,” Treen said of Kwan's 
report. 

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recognized this personal opinion as far 
removed from reality and therefore 
rejected it,” the governor said in a brie 
prepared statement. . 

Under the U.S. Voting Rights Act, 
Reynolds is responsible for deciding 
whether Louisiana election laws are fair to 
minorities. Despite requests from 
reporters, Reynolds has not revealed his 
reasons for overruling Kwan's 
recommendation and approving the maps 
used to elect Louisiana's eight 
congressmen. : 

Treen has repeatedly denied that his 
involvement in the redistricting process 
was racially motivated or that he used his 
influence with the Reagan administration 
to get the plan approved. 

A group of blacks opposing the plan ia 
court say Kwan's report helps prove thal’ 
the maps would have been rejected if nok 
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the Republican-controlled Justice 
Department. 

Last month a three-judge federal panel 
heard four days of testimony on a lawsuit 
backed by the NAACP alleging that the 
district lines are unfair because they do not 
give black voters control of one of the 
state's eight congressional districts. 

A ruling on the case is not expected gntil 
sometime this summer. : 

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The plaintiffs say Treen single*handedly 

dashed hopes of a majority black district 
when he threatened to veto a plan, 
endorsed by both houses of the Legislature, 
that would have carved out a district in 
New Orleans with 54 percent black 
population. Black leaders want such a plan 
enacted. pots in? 

The congressional boundaries 
eventually approved by the Legislature 
increased the black population in the 2nd 
District, represented by Rep. Lindy Boggs, 
D-La., from 41 to 45 percent. : 

“However, this does not mean that the 
adoption of the submitted plan does not 
have racial consequences,” Kwan said in 
his report. 

Kwan noted that Treen was once a 
member of the States’ Rights Party, which 
was linked to efforts to preserve racial 
segregation in the late 1950s and early 
1960s. Treen has said that he joined the 
party to fight undue federal intervention in 
state affairs but quit because he wa 
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showdown vote Thursday on revenue 

- targets. The Democratic minority sought 
to pick up enough Republican votes for a 
proposal to increase revenues by at least 
$15 billion in 1984. 

The Democratic plan was expected to 
call for repeal or modification of the 10 
percent individual income tax cut 
scheduled for July 1. The Democrats also 
were expected to endorse repealing the 
law which, beginning in 1985, would 
prevent taxpayers from being pushed into 
higher tax brackets by inflation. 
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these deficits.” 
To Reagan's proposed budget, the 

committee recommended adding $1.6 
billion for health, $1.7 billion for education 
and job training, $2.5 billion for a huge 
batch of social programs including 
welfare and food stamps, $1.9 billion for 
natural resources and the environment, $1 
billion for commerce and housing, $900 
million for transportation, $500 million for 
law enforcement, $300 million energy, 
$700 million for agriculture, $800 million 
for community development and $200 

(See BUDGET, Page 18-A) 

Memo upholds Treen 
in remap dispute 
By JOHN LaPLANTE 
Capitol news bureau 

Gov. Treen was motivated by political, 
not racial, concerns when he got involved 
in drawing Louisiana's congressional 
districts two years ago, according to the 
federal official who decided the maps are 
fair to minorities. 

“There is simply no sound basis to 
conclude that minority communities 
suffered any dilution in voting strength as 
a result of the new plan,” William 
Bradford Reynolds wrote in a memo made 
public Wednesday. 

Reynolds is the assistant U.S. Attorney 
General in charge of civil rights. 

Treen released a copy of the memo in 
response to a report by one of Reynolds 
subordinates, U.S. Justice Department 
staff attorney Robert Kwan, 
recommending Reynolds reject the plan 
approved by the Legislature in 1981 
because it was intended to discriminate 
against black vcters. 

Treen said he resented news stories 
about the staff report, which concluded 
Treen was motivated by racial prejudice 
when he threatened to veto a map that 
would have created a congressional 
district with a majority-black population. 

Treen said he had no objection to 
allowing blacks a majority in the 2nd 
District based in New Orleans. 

He said he opposed that plan for other 
reasons, mainly because it would have 
greatly rearranged traditional district 
lines, particularly the 1st District of fellow 
Republican Bob Livingston. . 

“The Justice Department is satisfied 
that the Governor's role in the 
redistricting process was political, and 
was in no respect informed by racial 
animus,” Reynolds wrote in the memo. 

The Morning Advocate had 
unsuccessfully attempted to obtain a copy 
of the memo — and any other response 
from Reynolds — before publishing new, 
‘stories about Kwan's report, which was 
made public by civil rights attorneys 
challenging the plan in court. A decision on 
the court case is at least two months away. 

Treen said he obtained a copy of 
Reynolds’s memo Tuesday from the 
Justice Department. 

The three-page document was 
addressed to “The File“ and was dated 
June 18, 1982 — the day Reynolds 
announced approval of the state's 
congressional boundaries. 

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analyzed the redistricting plan, concluded 
in a 30-page analysis that Treen was the 
major factor in drawing the maps and that 
he was motivated by race in his decisions. 

“I was not motivated by race,” Treen 
said Wednesday. 

He said Kwan's conclusions were 
ludicrous. Treen said the law does not 
require that the Legislature create a 

.black-controlled district whenever 
possible, but only that the state not act to 
reduce minority power in the political 
system. 

Treen said the plan he signed into law 
actually increases the black population in 
the 2nd District from 41 to 45 percent, 
without severely reducing black voting 
strength in surrounding districts. : 

Treen predicted a black candidate will 
be elected from that district as soon as 
popular white Rep. Lindy Boggs, D-New 
Orleans, retires from Congress. She has 
been considering retirement for some 
time. 

Treensaid that if he had wanted to dilute 
black voting power, he would have 
proposed boundary lines concentrating as 
many black voters as possible into one 
district, leaving the surrounding districts 
overwhelmingly white. 

In his memo, Reynolds said he approved 
the congressional boundaries after “full 
discussion with both proponents and 
opponents of the redistricting.” 

Reynolds said Treen's comments on 
redistricting “indicate no more than the 
Governor's honest belief as to the legal 
requirements imposed by the Constitution | 
and the Voting Rights Act. . .. 

“From a purely legal point of view, the 
Governor's understanding of the law is 
absolutely correct, and his forthrightness 
in expressing such an opinion bespeaks no 
racial purpose.” 

Black leaders and groups, particularly 
the NAACP, which is sponsoring the 
lawsuit challenging the districts in court, 
say the Legislature would have approved a 
plan creating a black district if Treen head 
not threatened to veto it. 

Attorneys handling the lawsuit say the 
Justice Department would have rejected 
the plan, but that Treen used his influence 
with the Republican Reagan 
administration to get the plan approved. 

Treen said he presented facts and 
opinions to Reynolds to convince him the 
congressional maps are fair to blacks, but 
he said he never used connections with the 
White House to get the plan approved.